Caravel finishes undefeated season with state championship

Caravel girls soccer team poses with the DIAA D2 state trophy. Photo courtesy of Caravel Athletics

The upset minded Ursuline Raiders met the Caravel Buccaneers Saturday evening in the Division 2 girls’ state championship at Cape Henlopen High School. Ursuline made their way through the tournament with upset wins over St. Marks and St. Andrews after winning their opening round match 1-0 versus The Sanford School.

12 minutes in half Caravel’s Sidney Hayden would blast a shot across the mouth of goal into the side netting for the first goal of the match. This came immediately after a Hayley Haines shot ricocheted off the goal post and bounced all the way out to the top of the 18-yard box. The Buccaneers continued to put pressure on the Raider defense for the rest of the half forcing Ursuline’s keeper, Julia Terzaghi to make save after save to keep the #8 seed within one goal heading into halftime.

After a close first half, the match took a drastic turn 37 seconds into the second half as Caravel’s Aniya Price took the ball down the sidelines, pulled it back and shot back across the Ursuline keeper to make the score 2-0. Less than 4 minutes later, Sydney Hayden fired a left footed shot from 25 yards out past an unsuspecting Raider keeper, giving them a 3-0 lead. The back line of Caravel shut down any and all Raider chances as they have to opponents throughout the season.

The match would end 3-1 as Ursuline’s Zoe Carberry would catch the Caravel keeper moving forward and was able to tuck a shot from 35 yards out into the back of the net for their only goal of the game.

Caravel finishes their state championship campaign with a 15-0-2 record surrendering only 5 goals the entire season, including the playoffs.